http://jamazon.co.uk Can't Sleep. Clowns Will Eat Me Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:42:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It sounds nuts but for a limited time only Royal Mail are giving away copies of the full UK Postcode Database for free to those wishing to use it for the "Show Us a Better Way" competition currently being run by The Cabinet Office. The Royal Mail has now kindly agreed ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/07/24/full-uk-postcode-database-for-free/ Below, I share with you an excerpt from quite possibly the most pointless thing i've ever wathed on TV. These guys are real hustlers for sure. They certainly know what's up. And there was me using BitTorrent and Rapidshare to download installerz, keygenz and serialz. If only i'd known that I ... http://jamazon.co.uk/rants/2008/07/23/omgwtfbbc-this-is-how-hackers-steal-software/ IE7, don't you just love it? What they gave us with one had in terms of CSS actually sort of working they took away with some of the stupidest niggly little bugs ever. Here's another potentially large one i'm stumbled right into recently. If your user agent string is more than ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/07/23/an-ie7-bug-that-returns-msie-60-user-agent-string/ There currently an inconsistency between the jQuery UI tabs plugin and the CSS generated by Themeroller The CSS includes rules for ".ui-tabs-nav-item" but these classes are never added to the list items by the plugin. Because they are unnecessary. Simply changing the rules to ".ui-tabs-nav li" they way they should be brings ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/07/22/jquery-uitabs-and-themeroller/ It occurred to me today that when using jQuery's handy little .getScript method that each script request is appended by a timestamp appended to the querystring. This is great. A lot of the time this is exactly what you want as it ensures that no browser will ever serve up ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/07/21/jquerygetscript-does-not-cache/ Ever wondered why last.fm don't provide an RSS feed of your loved tracks? Me too. So using the freely available audioscrobbler web services i've created a very basic last.fm loved tracks feed which. The main reason for doing so was to update twitter with my loved tracks via twitterfeed. The ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/06/30/lastfm-loved-tracks-rss-feed/ With a view to writing a jQuery UI integrated with the offline functionality of Google Gears i've been toying with some code to poll for network connection status using jQuery. The Network Detection Object The basic premise is very simple. We create an instance of a network detection object which will poll ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/06/17/publish-subscribe-with-jquery/ For those who are interested I'm going to start documenting the upgrades and improvements I'm making to citynoise.org over the coming months. The site has been struggling under some pretty heavy traffic and several internal optimisations including query caching for some of the more complex database operations has gone a ... http://jamazon.co.uk/projects/2008/06/13/all-change-at-citynoise-dot-org/ As has been widely reported, it is still possible to successfully download the x264 MPEG streams of BBC programmes from the BBC IPlayer service but that they are now XOR "encrypted" in such a way that they will only play on Apple mobile devices. It's not really encryption, is it Long ... http://jamazon.co.uk/rants/2008/06/11/bbc-iplayer-xor-decryption/ Dave Ward has put together an excellent and extensive post on his experiences integrating jQuery with ASP.NET There are the usual number of pitfalls you'd expect when integrating [insert widely-used microsoft technology here] with [insert useful open source technology here] Want to consume a JSON Web Service with jQuery? Sounds simple. That's ... http://jamazon.co.uk/web/2008/06/09/tips-for-using-jquery-with-aspnet-ajax/